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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl
How? It's a state university and the professor has tenure. Armies of lawyers fall before such obstacles. What could I even do?
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I didn't mean try to get the guy fired or disciplined UL. I meant go to him and ask what he meant by it, and what he thinks you should do to fix it.
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Would you say that I have created an obstacle to understanding? That was not my intent at all. I only wished to get down to the basics of ethics philosophy. That's it. In retrospect, it would have been better to have sought consultation, rather than simply presenting a contrarian view, but isn't higher education supposed to be about broadening horizons? Why would a person decide that another is a failure simply because of an attitude?
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I don't know. Based on his comment I'd say you might have. That's why I suggest that you talk to him and try to understand what he's looking for out of you.
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The more I learn, the less I understand. If understanding the key concepts behind something is wrong, then I do not know what is right. I feel like the world made a quantum leap at some point and I missed it somehow. My prof has a master's degree, and he apparently thinks I'm an idiot......
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This all comes down to the assignment you were given. You weren't asked to critique key concepts, you were asked to apply them to a particular scenario so that, and only that, is what you should have done.
As for your professor thinking you're an idiot, nothing you've said he told you implies that. It sounds to me like he was trying to motivate you.
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Ah, well. I wrote to him during my brief hiatus from subsim this evening, so I'll wait to see what he says.
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Keep us posted as to what he says if you would.